Taking a European cross-country perspective, this paper addresses the most important issues in the nexus of population ageing and labor markets. We start from a descriptive overview of the demographic change currently shaping European societies. The subsequent section intensively discusses the...

Mit der zum 1. April 2003 in Kraft getretenen Reform geringfügiger Beschäftigungsverhältnisse - sog. Minijobs - im Rahmen der Hartz-Gesetze sind vielfältige arbeitsmarktpolitische Ziele verbunden. Die erste empirische Evidenz zur Wirksamkeit der Minijob-Reform nach einem Jahr zeigt, dass,...

Taking a European cross-country perspective, this paper addresses the most important issues in the nexus of population ageing and labor markets.We start from a descriptive overview of the demographic change currently shaping European societies.The subsequent section intensively discusses the...

This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities of high- and low-skilled natives. Employing an...